30 Common Quirky Habits That Nobody Will Admit To

Our idiosyncrasies might be more universally relatable than we think. While we engage in small habits that seem isolated to us, as it turns out, we are not as unique as we aspire to be. Indeed, our quirky practices may be more common than we realise, according to one particular online discussion.

Recently, Broken__Defraculator posted online asking Redditors, “What’s a weird little thing that we all do or experience, but no one talks about?” The answers poured in, from ignoring known people in public to looking at other people’s food in restaurants. There are a vast number of odd little habits we embody that are more popular than we think.

#1 When hot in bed, we don’t just throw the covers off. We stick out a single leg….except we don’t just “dangle” it outside the covers, we wrap it around the duvet and kinda clamp it back down. No one has ever shown us how to do this. No one ever taught us to do this. No one has ever discussed this. We just all do it.

#2 When a random embarrassing/cringe memory floods the mind and the best you can do is try to blurt out some incoherent words, sounds, melody to distract yourself.

#3 Picking our noses. I mean, c’mon. Sometimes a tiny, golden morsel is stuck in just that one irritating spot where you can feel it for minutes – or hours – and there’s no Kleenex in the vicinity. So up goes the finger and out comes the booger. Flick it, eat it, wipe it on your jeans. Whatever. Gotta get rid of it.

#4 Picking our underwear out of our a*s crack.

#5 Wiping your a**e then looking at the paper.

#6 Pulling your phone out and fake checking it to act as a cover story for turning around because you forgot something or started walking the wrong way.

#7 One weird little thing we all do but rarely talk about is replaying imaginary arguments or conversations in our heads, often coming up with the perfect comeback we wish we’d said at the time.

#8 Make up excuses to get out of invitations to social gatherings and other events you don’t want to attend.

#9 Disgustingly brutal intrusive thoughts. The ones that would shatter your world if it happened.

#10 The gross feeling of sitting on a toilet seat after someone else warned it up.

#11 Putting the last chunk of deodorant back on after it falls on the floor.

#12 Don’t pee in the dream bathroom.

#13 The farts that roll up your v*gina are pretty weird.

#14 When you snap out of a daydream while you’re driving and quickly check all your mirrors as if you might catch a glimpse of a huge accident you caused. Then wonder how the hell did I drive this far and can’t remember.

#15 Look at other people’s food as waiters bring it to their table at a restaurant.

#16 How much middle of the night calf cramps f*****g hurt.

#17 When we accidentally spit on someone when talking and all act like nothing happened.

potsgotme:

And you can still feel it on your arm and you wait til they look away so you can wipe it even though you both know they just f**king spit on you while locking eyes.

#18 Trying to catch your reflection in a window as you walk past to see if your hair is ok.

#19 Pretending not to see someone you know in public to avoid that awkward “hi” moment. We all do it, don’t lie.

#20 Anyone else having entire conversations with themselves? Like, full on talking at the 2nd person, like you’re talking with someone else and trying to explain something? Sometimes even out loud (but in whispers so you don’t look like your insane. Then you realize you’re whispering to yourself and you look even more insane). Or am I just really lonely?

Even weirder, for me it happens in another language. I’m not English native, but I start talking with myself and arguing in english.

Also, do you guys/girls move when you’re talking? On the phone, for example. I can’t stand still. I’m literally walking circles around my own room. Sooner or later I’m gonna start digging out trenches like some Looney tunes cartoon. This also happens when talking by myself. It’s like moving my body allows me to think and explain better.

#21 I feel like deja vu isn’t discussed often enough. Not the “this feels like something I’ve been through” but legitimate “I had this exact dream and now it’s happening”. We all have that s**t and no one talks about it.

#22 The things we smell sometimes. Our own farts. Our hands after scratching an itch in your pants….we all do it when we are alone. It’s actually biologically ingrained in us to “like” that smell. Our brains give us a little dopamine for checking….if the smell is off we know something is wrong.

#23 The secret thrill of being the first person to use a new jar of peanut butter, and sliding in the butter knife with grace and care to carve out a perfectly-formed morsel of legumic joy.

#24 Having an itch right on my palm and using my teeth to scratch it.

#25 Withessing some (random) person doing something really embarassing to themself and actively choosing/doing our best to ignore it and moving on. This is empathy.

RedeRules770:

At work once this lady bent over to grab her purse and whatnot. I happened to be facing away from her and she tooted, just a little one. She said “oh! Excuse me!” I turned around with a confused look and said “for what?” She looked SO RELIEVED and said “oh, never mind” She’ll never know that I know.

#26 When you’re pooping in a public bathroom and strategically plan your exit for when it’s empty so no one associates you with the smell of poop or farts you might have unleashed.

#27 Before going to sleep, check how much sleep time you have.

#28 The little shake we do when we get under a cold cozy blanket.

Such a privilege.

#29 Hearing a weird brief tone in one ear.

galloping_spider: The aliens tuning in.

#30 That weird smell you get from your childhood but can never find or replicate if you wanted to. Mine reminds me of white school floors with little black dots all over.

Shanilou Perera

Shanilou has always loved reading and learning about the world we live in. While she enjoys fictional books and stories just as much, since childhood she was especially fascinated by encyclopaedias and strangely enough, self-help books. As a kid, she spent most of her time consuming as much knowledge as she could get her hands on and could always be found at the library. Now, she still enjoys finding out about all the amazing things that surround us in our day-to-day lives and is blessed to be able to write about them to share with the whole world as a profession.